bronconick
Yep, still here
Silver clearly forgot that city mayor's of major cities are usually more likely headed for prison than national politics.
Oh man...the Adams indictment is great. These people are dumb enough to work for Trump!
57 page indictment...oh boy!
It is funny that the MAGA World is defending Adams now saying the DOJ did this because he opposed Immigrants coming to New York. So predictable...
edit: His event went well today!
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupa...QGzCPA46QebGv5zJtTgGuixrgwxcW3hvZEBpgUxvuezLw
Do you think the Wild Turk is involved???? Maybe the fbi has been monitoring my messages!!!!
In a lot of ways he sounds just like Trump trying to defend it... they're going after me because I'm working for you...
Thing is that won't work on Democrats.
He isn't courting Dems...they all want him to quit. He is courting the Right Wing.
He can't be dumb enough to think MAGAts would save him?
They are already rallying around him...won't save his job but gives him a soft landing spot after prison.
A lot of parents of Prior Lake High School students are upset after finding out they’re still paying for school lunches.
About a dozen parents told us it’s ridiculous that they have to shell out hundreds of dollars a year when parents at almost every school in the state pay nothing except the taxes to support the program.
But at Prior Lake High School, there’s no such thing as a free lunch for most students.
About 14% of students qualify for free lunches under federal guidelines, according to U.S. News and World Report.
The rest pay $3.25, and even some parents who can afford it think lunch should be free.
"It's not really about me and my family," said Dave Laidig. "I think it's just what should be done."
Across the state, Prior Lake and Byron High Schools stand alone as non-charter schools opting out of the National School Lunch Program, which means they are also not in the state’s universal free meals program.
Eighteen charter schools also opt out, but the Minnesota House research team says most or all of those are online only or have no kitchens.
Prior Lake administrators say they don’t deny lunch to any student and they offer everyone free breakfast, plus free lunches in K-8 schools.
But parents point to a July school board meeting in which the nutrition director mentioned what they see as a profit motive.
"We make money and we’re able to support the students in need as well," said Emily Malone, director of child nutrition at Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools.
Malone said at the same July 8 meeting that an initial survey showed parents prioritized saving money, but they ran a second survey after serving a weeklong trial of meals based on federal standards.
They got feedback that portions were too small and the district sent a statement Wednesday saying "survey data from 2015 and again in 2024 by families, students, and staff revealed a desire for continued flexibility and variety in meals."
Parents told us they felt the survey was limited and tainted. They say their kids were told to complain about the food.
Parents who have students in both high school and middle school tell me the food is essentially the same.
And a large number of them want the district to reconsider.
"Why are you paying for lunches when the state's paying for lunches?" said Jessica Jeurissen.
The authors of the universal free meals bills are Sen. Heather Gustafson, (DFL)-Vadnais Heights, and Rep. Sydney Jordan, (DFL)-Minneapolis.
They tell us the decisions in Prior Lake and Byron are disappointing and hurt students.
And they say parents should make sure the districts know where they stand.
Daniel Penny found not guilty today of criminally negligent homicide against Jordan Neely, the dude having a mental breakdown on the subway train in NYC last year who Penny kept in a chokehold for six minutes. Apparently up to 51 seconds after his body went limp. Having worked as a tech and a nurse inside an inpatient psychiatric hospital for almost a decade, I can say with utmost confidence that I would have the police called and out there so fast you thought they'd already worked there if I ever witnessed a staff member placing a patient in a chokehold, much less trying to do so for six minutes. I would absolutely try to get the staff member off after calling 9-1-1. You get more staff (passengers) to help you if someone is that dangerous. Communicate. Yes, I get the circumstances are different, since it's someone's job at my hospital versus laypeople on a subway, but if there is a kind of vigilante "justice" that needs to be punished, rather than protected, it's sh*t like this, right Hovey? Yes, yes, he won in a court of law. It's likely the guy we're celebrating on here, Luigi, won't. And shouldn't, since it's likely he's a f*cking murderer after all. All well and good. Just, you know, if you truly care about humanity more than us libs, defending or justifying Penny's actions in your roundabout way, based on the same sh*t we both read, wouldn't be in the cards.
"I don't remember much about this case, but what I have to say, is this..."